Baby’s first plot twist. The funny part isn’t that the twist is obvious, it’s how much Shutter Island doesn’t trust the audience to figure it out. It holds your hand to explain every detail of its plot twist— there’s even a point where Ben Kingsley takes out a chalk board to explain an anagram. If the movie was less obsessed with trying to sell a spooky twist and spent more time on Teddy’s trauma, then maybe we’d be cooking. Instead we get exhausting exposition dump detours with Patricia Clarkson in a cave and Ben Kingsley seductively saying, why you all wet baby?

Podcast- Shutter Island (part of psychological horror month)